p-p-prevent

Updated: July 15, 2026

You say I ought to l-l-liquidate my b-b-brother's af-f-fairs, to p-p-prevent the f-f-failure. I c-c-can't be in two p-p-places at once, unless I were a little b-b-bird, and " "I understand," cried the notary. "Well, my old friend, you have friends, old friends, capable of devoting themselves to your interests." "All right!" thought Grandet, "make haste and come to the point!"

Honoré de Balzac - Eugenie Grandet